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Scent of a scheme

The Congress-led UPA seems to be betting heavily on the cash transfer scheme as a means to return to power in the next general elections.

New Delhi,28/12/2012: Congrees President Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressing the media during the AICC Foundation Day in New Delhi on December 28, 2012. Photo:R_V_Moorthy

Dwindling giant

The Congress’ shift towards neoliberalism and actions that appear insensitive, distant and even cynically patronising have alienated its core constitu

Mexicos challenge

Mexicos war on drugs, which began in 2006 and has claimed more than 50,000 lives so far, is set to change from a militaristic approach to one that rec

For a Dalit perspective

Like it or not, the benefits that bourgeois culture offers historians and critics largely enhances the interests of the elite at the expense of everyo

Demonising dissent

The UPA governments unpopular reform measures and double standards show that it is more interested in incentivising big business than meeting the soci

PRANAB MUKHERJEE, when he was Union Finance Minister, interacting with students at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata after delivering the K.C. Basu Endowment Lecture on 'India's Development, Economic Policy and the Law' in 2011. At left is West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra.-ARUNANGSU ROY CHOWDHURY

Understanding economics

Lack of economic literacy is why people are not in a position to interrogate economic policies that are often presented as inevitable.

At a Mcdonald's restaurant in Noida, near New Delhi. A file photograph. The explosion in the food industry across the world is clearly based on commercial considerations and rapidly generates cultural changes.-PANKAJ NANGIA/BLOOMBERG

Fast-food world

The globalised fast-food culture now encourages wasteful and unhealthy patterns of food consumption.

Ludwig van Beethoven. He captured in his music the richness and variety of human emotion in ways that are both very inward-looking and directed outwards.-THE HINDU ARCHIVES

Beethovens last quartets

It is apt as a musical representation of our times: full of tragedy, injustice and farce, and also full of humour and hope for the future.

A rickshaw puller, with a billboard advertising an upcoming retail e-mall in the backdrop, in Kolkata.-ARUNANGSU ROY CHOWDHURY

Structural imbalances

The expectation that growth would cause the movement of workers out of low-productivity primary activities to formal employment in regular jobs has be

WOMEN IN BIHAR, who generally remained indoors, have taken to agricultural work because of large-scale migration of the men in their families. Here, a recent scene in Araria district.-RANJEET KUMAR

The new reality

Among the many criteria of "otherness" that contribute to social discrimination in India, migration has recently emerged as a prominent one.

Wage-led growth

Argentina is a shining example of an alternative economic strategy paying significant dividends in terms of generating inclusive growth.

THE EURO CURRENCY sign in front of the European Central Bank headquarters in Frankfurt.-ALEX DOMANSKI/REUTERS

Jobs hold the key

An ILO report on the eurozone crisis highlights the possibility of a jobs-centred recovery strategy that will also redress the current account imblanc

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